Two of the state’s biggest utilities participated in a nationwide drill yesterday intended to prepare computers against potential problems arising from the Year 2000. Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.

The first official business day of the year 2000 will put 90-percent of the world's computers back online, including the town of Cary's web site, signaling the first next test since the rollover.

The year 2000 is set to hit Friday for America’s electric utilities as they plan to hold the first nationwide “Y2K drill.” The aim: to ensure the utilities can talk to each other even if the so-called ...

DENVER (AP) — As Convair Three-Niner approaches the runway at Denver International Airport, the airplane also is nearing an imaginary boundary: the dreaded Year 2000 witching hour. It is moments ...

Testing is projected to be one of the most time-consuming and expensive aspects of the year 2000 (Y2K) remediation process. In fact, leading analysts have estimated that code testing will amount to ...

CARSON CITY – Imagine Y2K at its worst: Drunken mobs, computer crashes, no lights, car fuel or phones. That’s the premise of a Dec. 9 test to see if Nevada’s state and local governments can handle the ...

20 years ago the world feared the Y2K bug. The Y2K bug theory wend like this: Because early computer software used only the last two digits in a year, the machines will read the last “00” in 2000 on ...

History will tell you that Y2K didn’t cause any of the expected catastrophes. True, the major disaster scenarios envisioned did not take place, but only because a lot of work was done to mitigate the ...